Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Family Dramas | "48 Hours" Full Episodes" video.
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@BlkMagickGaia3
Yup! I know it well. My stalker harassed us - me, mostly, but also family - for years. It steadily got worse, but I was told that no Order of Protection could be issued until he committed a serious criminal act, such as sending me to a hospital. It was very predictable, and then it happened: He sent me to the hospital, and finally got arrested. Unfortunately, I did too: For defending myself, really. Charges against me were completely dropped, but spending 18 hours in custody was not fun. The stalker pled down to a lower charge, and we got a two year order of protection against him. He violated it whenever he felt like it, and then the Police would arrest him, and then he'd get released within three or four hours, and all charges eventually dropped. It was infuriating. So before the two year OP ran out, we moved, telling almost no one before we left, in a neighborhood where we knew hundreds of people. The whole thing is absurd. When will the law deal with stalking? It is a very serious issue, but few notice or care.
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@puckerupbuttercup1980
Yup! I know it well. My stalker harassed us - me, mostly, but also family - for years. It steadily got worse, but I was told that no Order of Protection could be issued until he committed a serious criminal act, such as sending me to a hospital. It was very predictable, and then it happened: He sent me to the hospital, and finally got arrested. Unfortunately, I did too: For defending myself, really. Charges against me were completely dropped, but spending 18 hours in custody was not fun. The stalker pled down to a lower charge, and we got a two year order of protection against him. He violated it whenever he felt like it, and then the Police would arrest him, and then he'd get released within three or four hours, and all charges eventually dropped. It was infuriating. So before the two year OP ran out, we moved, telling almost no one before we left, in a neighborhood where we knew hundreds of people. The whole thing is absurd. When will the law deal with stalking? It is a very serious issue, but few notice or care.
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1. It took me days to click because when 48 Hours posts a "marathon", I've usually seen all three episodes already. This time, I'd seen none 👍
2. The hate poured on Jessica throughout the comment section is horribly unfair. Someone more worldly might have known not to meet with her stalker, but she was trying to do the right thing. People here claim "she was playing both sides", but that is absolutely false: She met with him after two months, he used it to try to end her relationship with Patrick, and then she got the Order of Protection. She'd avoided him like the plague for nearly half a year before the unaliving of Patrick.
3. My family and I got a court order of protection against my stalker. He would violate it, get arrested, released a few hours later, and charges dropped. Rinse and repeat. Orders of Protection don't do much if the DA's office doesn't bother enforcing them.
4. Richard Schlesinger is a new level of awesome. He's always been the best 48 Hours host, but the pilot thing raises him to a new level.
5. CeeCee Moore is amazing! With Investigative Genetic Genealogy, getting away with violent crime has become really difficult, thank God.
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